PublishedErschienen: 2012-06-21. Modernization has been one of the most intensely negotiated concepts of the theoretical and historical social sciences over the last fifty years. Conceptions of the term have changed considerably during the course of this discussion.
An adjective is a word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun. Adjectives are used to describe a person, object, place or event. In many instances, an adjective provides a specific meaning to the word it is describing.
Definition: A word group with an adjective as its head. This adjective may be accompanied by modifiers, determiners, and/or qualifiers. Adjective phrases modify nouns.They may be attributive (appearing before the noun) or predicative (appearing after a linking verb), but not all adjectives can be used in both positions. Noun Phrases and Adjective Phrases.  2 There may be very little difference between a noun phrase and an adjective phrase in structures where the adjectives occur before the word it qualifies. 3  Most noun phrases consist of a head noun plus one or more adjectives, or indeed an adjective phrase itself.